Goldie
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265 Sterling Rd. 1980 TPL
265 Sterling Rd. 1980 TPL
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Lone Primate
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I was trying to place when all that was going on; I'd have to guess the winter of 1979-80, since Joe Clark is mentioned and he was prime minister for only about 9 months. First federal election I was old enough to follow, so it stands out. Oh, geez, the guy's even calling out Bill Davis on the stairs. I wonder what in the world prompted all that. Is there a story about it in The Star or anything, Goldie? William Wodiuk of 265 Sterling Road?
Well, Clark and Davis are still around; maybe we could ask them.
Well, Clark and Davis are still around; maybe we could ask them.
Goldie
Senior Member
College Rentals & Hardware, College St., S-E corner of Sheridan Ave. 1980 TPL
lenaitch
Senior Member
I miss those old-style hardware stores, like Dempsey Brothers. Places that carried just about anything, offered a wide range of services and staff that could actually provide knowledgeable advice. If it included a lumber yard they would carry a variety of soft and hard wood lumber and even do some custom cutting or milling for you.
Goldie
Senior Member
Grover Theatre 2714 Danforth Ave. c.1920s
Theatre building in 2013
Theatre building in 2013
vic
Senior Member
Somehow the 1920s black and white photo has much more colour than the beige blandness of the 2013 photo.
Goldie
Senior Member
"Indian" burial ground unearthed when developers were preparing ground in Scarborough for new housing,,,,1956 TPL
Tabor (Taber?) Hill, indigenous ossuary east side of Bellamy Road, north of Lawrence Ave. E.
An entire block of the sub-division was designated as "park land" and a monument was placed atop the lill.
Tabor (Taber?) Hill, indigenous ossuary east side of Bellamy Road, north of Lawrence Ave. E.
An entire block of the sub-division was designated as "park land" and a monument was placed atop the lill.
Richard White
Senior Member
Also useful for reanimating dead cats and opening portals to hell. ?
LPCI
Active Member
Even though the site was very disturbed, at least for the times the developer preserved the ossuary. The dead were kept locally, and then about every 10 years the bones were collected and buried communally in the ossuary. It is a cemetery.
adma
Superstar
I nearly mistook the "before" photo for Scarborough Bluffs--which is a reminder that as "respectful" as it is, the present configuration of Taber Hill is really an artifice...
Goldie
Senior Member
Frank E. Dunbar funeral, crowd at house, 293 Willard Ave. 1929 CTA
Richard White
Senior Member
Pardon my ignorance but who is Frank E. Dunbar?
Goldie
Senior Member
Perhaps we'd all like to know that.
I looked for the name on Google, without much success.
There are a number of entries under the same name.
Please let us know if there's a valid answer.
I looked for the name on Google, without much success.
There are a number of entries under the same name.
Please let us know if there's a valid answer.
JB1980
New Member
From the Toronto Daily Star, Wednesday April 17 1929:
WELL KNOWN WAR VETERAN IS BURIED
Frank E. Dunbar, President of the Toronto Amputation Association, was buried yesterday with full military honours in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. The funeral took place from 293 WIllard Ave. Many comrades and old friends paid a last tribute. The photograph shows the military party when they fired three volleys over the grave.
Thank you to the Toronto Public Library and their incredible Newspaper Archives for helping me find this!!!
JB1980
New Member
Frank M. Harvey House, West Side of Main Street, North of Gerrard. 1957. Toronto Public Library, Call Number 977-1-12. According to the Toronto Public Library website, Frank M. Harvey had operated a livery stable on Main Street, circa 1900.
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